Public history, environmental history, cultural landscapes
Perri is a public historian who specializes in American environmental history. Her dissertation traces the history of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and the entanglements of conservation, cultural heritage, and public lands.
Perri serves as national coordinator of the American Conservation Experience Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Previously, she held fellowships with Virginia Humanities, the National Park Service, and Harvard University. She also received a 2023 Graduate Student Award from Boston University’s Center for the Humanities.
Perri’s publications have appeared in The Public Historian, American Quarterly, and the blogs of the American Historical Association, African American Intellectual History Society, and the National Council on Public History.